John Lent was born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia in 1948; he grew up in Edmonton, Alberta. He studied at the University of Alberta from 1965-71, concentrating in his graduate studies on Modernist art movements and experiments with form. He was taught by the noted Canadian novelist…

Rosella Leslie is the author of three published novels and six nonfiction books, including the award-winning, co-authored, Stain Upon the Sea and Bright Seas, Pioneer Spirits. She has published numerous articles in magazines and local newspapers and edited two published books.…

Alex Leslie has published two collections of short stories and two collections of poetry, as well as a chapbook of microfictions. Alex's collection of short stories are We All Need to Eat (Book*hug 2019) was shortlisted for a BC Book Prize for fiction and the Kobzar Prize for…

Luba Lesychyn (le-si-shin) is the author of Theft Between the Rains and Theft By Chocolate. In Theft Between the Rains, an amateur sleuth and museum employee finds herself pulled into international art theft intrigue when masterpieces missing since WWII start appearing on her…

With a Canadian military father, Kim spent her childhood living in various parts of Canada and Europe. She and her husband, Mike Simpson, served twenty-year careers in the Canadian Forces. Retiring in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island, they focussed on raising their two sons…

Kathy-Diane Leveille is a former broadcast journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Her debut literary suspense novel Let the Shadows Fall Behind You (Kunati Books 2009) was followed by Standing in the Whale’s Jaw (Tightrope Books 2013). Kathy-Diane’s short story…

Anna Leventhal’s acclaimed short story collection Sweet Affliction (Invisible Publishing) won the Quebec Writers’ Federation Concordia University First Book Prize and was named a book of the year by CBC Books. It was translated into French by Daniel Grenier and published by …

Stella Leventoyannis Harvey is a Greek Canadian author born in Cairo, Egypt. She moved to Calgary as a child with her family. Stella's short stories have appeared in The Literary Leanings Anthology, The New Orphic Review, Emerge Magazine and The Dalhousie Review. Her non-fiction…

Allan Levine was born and raised in Winnipeg. He attended the University of Manitoba receiving a bachelor of arts (1977) and a certificate in education (1983), and also received a MA (1979) and PhD (1985) in history from the University of Toronto. From 1984 to 2012 he taught…

Shar Levine is an internationally award-winning, best selling author of hands-on science books for children. She also designs science toys. Shar writes with her best friend, Leslie Johnstone. Shar and Leslie shared the Eve Savory Award for Science Communication from the BC…

Myrna Neuringer Levy was born in Brooklyn, New York, received her Bachelor's degree from Barnard College, Columbia University, and her ME.d. degree from the National College of Education in Evanston, Illinois. She lives in Toronto and is a retired teacher/librarian. She has one…

My first collection of stories - Urban Legend - came out with Thistledown Press in 2013. In 2020, my second collection - The Quantum Theory of Love and Madness - was published by Guernica Editions. My third collection, The Philosopher Stories, will be published by Guernica in…

Robyn Michele Levy is a visual artist, radio broadcaster, and writer. Her writing has been published in the Vancouver Sun, the Georgia Straight, and the Vancouver Courier, and she has also dabbled in stand-up comedy and slam poetry. At age forty-three, Robyn Levy was diagnosed…

Joanne Levy’s love of books began at a very early age. Being the youngest and the only female among four children, she was often left to her own devices and could frequently be found sitting in a quiet corner with her nose in a book. After much teenage misadventure, Joanne…

Amanda Lewis is an award-winning book editor, writer, publishing strategist, and creative coach.  She worked as an associate managing editor and acquiring editor at Penguin Random House Canada for eight years, then joined Page Two, where she was inaugural editorial director.…

Catherine Lewis (she/her/hers) is a Chinese Canadian writer and poet. Her debut queer poetry chapbook Zipless, published by The /tƐmz/ Review’s 845 Press in 2021 and now in its fourth printing, is a finalist for the Bisexual Book Award for Poetry. She is a finalist for the…

Sandra Marie Lewis, a committed writer for 25 years & member of a remarkable writing group, wrote & published a novel entitled Just Where You Stand which is based on obsessions found in her ancestors' lives through more than 150 years. Fascinating short stories often…

Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li is a queer writer, editor, musician, director, emerging filmmaker, aspiring actress, and interdisciplinary artist. Her poetry and/or fiction is published or forthcoming in The League of Canadian Poets Chapbook Series: In the Storm/Struggle, The Fiddlehead,…

Li Charmaine Anne (she/they) is the author of Crash Landing (Annick Press '24). Charmaine resides on the traditional, unceded, and stolen lands of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tseil-Waututh) Peoples. Short works by Charmaine can be…